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This Week’s Comics

Another week, another strange half-dozen assorted comics. There’s this week’s new and noteworthy titles.

Not your daddy's Prophet comic!

PROPHET #21 – The Rob’s Extreme relaunch begins here! When comicdom’s best writers like Warren Ellis and Rick Remender praise Liefeld’s comics, you KNOW they’re going to be something special. Prophet looks to be the best of them, as John Prophet’s story picks up years after the original Stephen Platt series and promises a more more European-style book. I don’t know how much it’ll appeal to me, really, but I’ve GOT to check out such a drastic revamp.

STEED AND MRS PEEL #1 (OF 6) – This one is new to me, but it looks like a new Grant Morrison series, so I’m in.

SUPERIOR #7 (OF 7) – I picked up the first handful of issues before last year’s experiment and I’m astounded to see it hadn’t wrapped up yet. And it looks like I hadn’t missed it that much.

If your area is anything like mine, Fatale #1 got a lot of press and sold out quickly. And with good reason. Brubaker and Phillips’ latest is essentially a Hellblazer noir title, and the mystery is pretty intriguing. While the seemingly-endless run of new mysteries is unquestionably producing more misses than hits, this isn’t one of them. These guys have a great, established track record and I’ll be picking this one up for a while.